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Mahinda (Buddhist monk)
Mahinda ( Sanskrit Mahendra; born third century BCE in Ujjain, modern Madhya Pradesh, India) was a Buddhist monk depicted in Buddhist sources as bringing Buddhism to Sri Lanka. He was the first-born son of the Mauryan emperor Ashoka from his wife Devi and the elder brother of Sanghamitra.
Ashoka named him Mahendra, meaning "conqueror of the world". But Mahendra, inspired by his mother, became a Buddhist monk.
Mahinda
Mahinda is a common Sinhala male name
- Mahinda Rajapaksa, former Sri Lankan President
- Mahinda Amaraweera, Sri Lankan politician
- Mahinda Samarasinghe, Sri Lankan politician
- Mahinda Ratnatilaka, Sri Lankan politician
- Mahinda Wijesekara, Sri Lankan politician
- Mahinda College, in Galle
- Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, Sri Lankan politician
- Mahinda V of Anuradhapura, Sri Lankan King
- Mahindananda Aluthgamage, Sri Lankan politician
- Mahinda (Buddhist monk), Buddhist Monk
- S. Mahinda, Buddhist Monk
- Mahinda (species): a genus in Amiseginae subfamilia, Chrysididae familia